ItL  Walker 
Portable 
Sanitary 
Cottage  a 

MANUFACTURED  B  Y 

S.  E,.  MILLED 

EASTON,  PA. 

D.  W.  Clark,  (■  Sal  e  smaii)  .  *3S  16  W  al  n  ny ,  St  <  P  h  i  1  a  „  Pa 


THE 


Walker  Portable  Sanitary  Cottage. 


Patented  yiug.  15,  1905,  and  Sept.  25  1906. 


A  PORTABLE  COTTAGE,  w  hich  is  strictly  unique.  Has  a  light  but  very  substantial 
L  frame  (constructed  of  wood  with  steel  fittings),  which  drops  together  and  locks  without 
the  use  of  bolt,  screw  or  nail.  Has  upper  and  lower  floors,  made  in  sections — the  largest 
piece  being  but  3x6  feet  in  size.  Has  truss  or  bridge  work  construction,  which  makes  upper 
floor  perfectly  safe  for  use  as  store-room  or  sleeping-room.  Roof  is  of  10  oz.  and  sides  of  8  oz. 
double-filled  army  duck.  This  is  also  made  up  double  thick  wherever  it  touches  the  wood-work. 

Can  be  shipped  anywhere  at  small  expense.  Can  be  hauled  on  an  express  wagon  to  any 
desired  point,  and  set  up  ready  for  occupancy  in  a  few  hours.  Every  cottage  is  set  up  before 
shipping,  hence  there  are  no  misfits.  Can  be  erected  easily  and  quickly  by  following  instruc¬ 
tions  herein  shown,  as  evey  piece  is  numbered. 

The  upper  floor  protects  from  the  heat  and  perfects  ventilating  system,  a  space  being  left 
on  each  side,  allowing  the  heated  air  from  the  lower  floor  to  rise.  A  part  of  the  ventilating 
system  consists  of  a  swinging  door  3x4  feet  at  each  gable  end,  which  opens  an  awning,  with 
screen  back  of  it,  as  shown  in  cut.  All  openings  are  provided  with  wire  screens  and  canvas 
coverings,  which  can  be  used  in  cold  or  stormy  weather,  making  an  Absolutely  Mosquito  and  Storm- 
Proof  House. 

Can  be  d  ivided  into  rooms  6x6  feet  or  6  x  12  feet  by  shifting  canvas  partitions.  The  beds 
fold  up  against  the  side  walls  when  not  in  use,  thus  giving  the  greatest  possible  amount  of  living 
space.  No  posts  are  in  the  way.  Beds  can  be  used  as  settees  or  lounges  if  desired,  making 
seats  around  the  w  all. 

Cottage  makes  an  ideal  home  for  many  purposes,  both  temporary  and  permanent.  It  is 
impossible,  however,  to  show  up  their  real  merit  in  any  catalogue.  You  must  see  it  to  appre¬ 
ciate  it.  If  possible,  call  at  our  factory  or  wherever  there  is  one  on  exhibition. 

KEEP  IN  MIND 


'T'HE  FOLLOWING  FACTS  in  regard  to  the  Walker  Cottages:— 

*  They  are  EARTHQUAKE  PROOF. 

They  are  MOSQUITO  PROOF. 

They  are  STORM  PROOF. 

They  are  the  most  healthy  houses  to  live  in  ever  invented. 

Are  ideal  cottages  for  an  outing  at  Beach,  Mountain,  or  in  the  Country. 

Are  the  cottages  for  Mining  Camps. 

Are  the  cottages  for  Sanitariums. 

Are  the  cottages  for  health  seekers. 

Fresh  air  is  Nature’s  own  cure,  so  that  people  with  diseases  of  the  lungs,  throat  or  heart, 
or  persons  suffering  from  insomnia,  should  sleep  in  them,  if  they  wish  to  be  cured  speedily. 

Physicians  and  nurses  say,  that  if  housed  in  these  cottages,  almost  any  diseased  or  injured 
person  wdl  recover  in  from  one-fourth  to  one-half  the  time  that  is  required  in  any  plastered 
house  or  hospital. 


If  you  Will  keep  in  mind  the  above  facts,  it  Will  be  a  Walker  Portable  Cottage  for  yours. 


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THE  WALKE'K  PORTABLE 


ARE  VERY  CHEAP. 

E'OR  PEOPLE  WITH  MODERATE  MEANS  who  prefer  a  home  of  their  own  instead  of 

^  always  paying  rent,  they  are  a  boon.  A  lew  dollars  will  make  the  first  payment  on  a  lot. 
A  few  dollars  more  will  buy  a  Walker  Cottage.  Soon  you  have  a  nice  property  all  paid  for. 

Are  cool  in  summer  and  warm  in  winter,  as  it  takes  very  little  heat,  even  in  a  cold  climate, 
to  make  them  comfortable. 

In  case  of  wind-storms,  a  2  x  3-inch  anchor  stake  can  be  driven  into  the  ground  through 
staples  provided  at  each  corner. 

Are  easy  to  take  care  of. 


Simplify  domestic  drudgery. 

Costs  very  little  to  furnish  them  cosdy. 

Are  the  only  canvas  cottages  having  upper  floor,  thus  doubling  floor  area. 
Have  folding  stairways  that  can  be  hung  up  out  of  the  way  when  not  in  use. 


CANVAS  COTTAGE  vs.  CANVAS  TENT. 


A  NYONE  WHO  HAS  LIVED  IN  A  CANVAS  TENT,  can  understand  at  a  glance  how 
much  more  comfort  can  be  found  in  a  Walker  Cottage  than  in  a  Common  tent.  Such  a  person 
knows  that  when  exposed  to  the  direct  rays  of  the  sun,  the  Common  tent  becomes  a  veritable  oven. 
On  account  of  the  patent  system  for  ventilation,  the  lower  floor  of  the  Walker  Cottage  is  always 
cool.  A  tent  has  no  ventilating  windows  or  system  of  ventilation  of  any  kind.  On  a  hot  day 
the  air  of  the  upper  floor  is  warm,  due  to  the  hot  rays  from  the  sun,  but  a  few  minutes  after  the 
sun  has  set,  the  floor  is  as  cool  as  the  lower  floor. 

There  are  no  loose  sides  or  ends  of  the  cottage  flapping  about  in  the  wind.  Every  bit  of 
canvas  is  securely  fastened  so  that  there  need  be  no  fear  of  its  wearing  out.  The  frame  of  the 
Walker  Cottage  is  so  strong  that  a  gale  of  wind  could  not  overturn  it  when  properly  anchored 
to  the  ground  by  means  of  stakes  furnished  with  each  cottage.  The  ordinary  wall  tent  is 
usually  of  the  very  lightest  construction,  generally  only  enough  framework  being  used  to  carry 
the  weight  of  the  canvas. 

Since  the  canvas  on  the  roof  and  walls  of  the  Walker  Cottage  is  stretched  tight,  it  sheds 
the  rain  perfectly  and  dries  quickly.  Consequently  the  canvas  lasts  much  longer  on  our  cot¬ 
tages  than  on  a  loosely-constructed  tent.  The  Walker  Cottage  is  always  dry  on  the  inside. 
Th  e  canvas  does  not  leak,  since  we  make  it  double  thickness  on  all  bearings,  as  over  the  ridge¬ 
pole,  the  rafters  and  side-plates  and  under  the  eaves. 

1  he  cost  of  a  Walker  Cottage  is  greater  than  that  of  a  tent  because  it  is  far  better  made 
in  every  way  and  costs  very  much  more  to  build.  But  in  spite  of  additional  cost,  when  you 
consider  comfort  and  utility,  the  Walker  Cottage  is  cheaper  than  any  tent  made. 

The  frame  is  indestructible.  Any  part  or  all  of  the  canvas  can  be  replaced  any  time  by 
writing  to  us,  giving  size  and  dimensions.  Regular  sizes  always  in  stock. 


After  you  haVe  seen  a  Walker  "Portable  Cottage — no  other  Will  do. 


SANITARY  COTTAGE 


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IN  THE  COUNTRY. 


THE  ABOVE  ILLUSTRATION  shows  how  one  of  our  Walker  Cottages,  size 
12x18  feet,  looks  when  erected  on  a  lot  in  a  suburban  town  or  in  the  country. 

If  you  and  your  family  have  been  penned  up  all  winter,  breathing  the  foul  air  and  dust 
of  the  city,  night  and  day,  just  think  how  delightful  it  would  be  to  rent,  or  buy,  a  little 
land  in  the  country,  near  by,  and  have  your  own  garden.  A  Walker  Cottage  costs  little. 
Living  in  one  will  tone  up  your  system  and  give  you  a  new  lease  on  life. 

If  you  are  just  starting  in  the  business  of  ranching,  farming,  vegetable  raising,  fruit 
growing  or  the  poultry  business,  these  cottages  are  just  what  you  want.  Instead  of  invest¬ 
ing  all  your  money  in  a  house,  invest  it  in  land,  stock  or  improvements  that  are  income 
producers.  In  a  short  time  your  income  will  be  enough  to  build  as  large  a  house  as  you 
wish.  For  bee  camps,  mining  camps,  lumber  camps,  construction  camps  or  oil-well  drill¬ 
ers,  they  are  the  most  convenient  cottage  ever  built.  By  the  use  of  inside  lining  they  are 
easily  warmed  in  a  winter  climate  of  40  degrees  below  zero. 


If  you  entertain  a  desire  to  purchase  a  Portable  Cottage  see  this  one  before  you  decide. 


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AT  THE  BEACH. 

IN  THE  SUMMER  TIME  thousands  of  people  go  to  the  beach  or  along  the  ocean 
or  lake  shore.  For  this  purpose  the  Walker  Cottages  are  the  most  delightful  houses 
to  live  in. 

It  costs  little  to  own  one  large  enough  for  your  family.  Are  easily  put  up,  easily  taken 
down.  Rent  of  land  costs  little  and  the  freight  is  small.  You  don’t  feel  that  you  have  to 
go  to  the  same  resort  every  season,  as  you  would  if  you  owned  a  permanent  cottage. 
Owning  a  Walker  Cottage,  you  can  take  it  to  a  different  location  each  season,  or  can  take 
it  to  the  mountains  or  country  for  a  change. 

AS  AN  INVESTMENT. 

IN  1  HE  ABOVE  ILLUSTRATION  we  show  one  of  our  Walker  Cottages,  erected 
at  a  beach  resort  at  a  cost  of  but  one-fourth  that  of  the  wooden  cottage  farther  down 
the  walk.  The  Walker  Cottage  as  shown  has  a  porch  in  the  rear,  which  can  be  en¬ 
tirely  enclosed  with  canvas  or  screen.  This  porch  can  be  built  so  as  to  make  two  rooms — 
one  a  bathroom  6x6  feet,  and  the  other  a  kitchen  6x6  feet.  The  cottage,  built  in  this 
way,  has  twice  as  much  floor  space  as  the  wooden  cottage,  and  will  accommodate  com¬ 
fortably  a  family  twice  the  size  that  the  wooden  cottage  can. 

For  renting  purposes  at  the  beach,  the  Walker  Cottage  brings  in  fully  as  much  per 
month  as  the  wooden  cottage,  on  a  first  investment  of  only  one-fourth  the  amount.  Per¬ 
sons  owning  beach  lots  and  wishing  to  draw  a  good  income  from  them  without  too  much 
outlay,  will  do  well  to  buy  a  number  of  our  cottages. 

1  he  extra  price  for  a  porch  with  two  rooms  6x6  enclosed  is  as  follows: 

For  No.  2)4  Cottage . $  90  For  No.  4/4  Cottage . $110 

For  No.  3/4  Cottage .  100  For  No.  5)4  Cottage .  120 


Where  can  you  invest  so  little  money  and  gain  so  much  in  health  or  so  much  in  dollars 

if  you  adopt  the  renting  proposition. 


SANITARY  COTTAGE 


ON  YOUR  LAWN. 


1V/TANY  OF  OUR  CUSTOMERS  are  buying  Walker  Cottages  to  erect  on  their  side 
1  A  or  back  lawns.  Some  buy  them  to  live  in  temporarily  while  their  larger  house  is 
being  erected,  intending  later  to  use  them  as  accommodations  for  their  help,  or  for 
cottages  at  beach  or  elsewhere.  Some  of  our  more  wealthy  customers  have  bought  them 
intending  to  sleep  in  them  exclusively,  it  being  the  verdict  of  ninety-nine  persons  out  of 
every  hundred,  that  outdoor  life  is  very  beneficial.  The  reason  for  this  is  that  no  house 
built  gives  as  well-regulated  ventilation  as  the  Walker  Cottage.  The  warm  air  rises,  pro¬ 
ducing  a  vacuum  near  the  floor,  causing  an  influx  of  fresh  air  through  the  canvas,  thus  fil¬ 
tering  the  air  while  producing  no  draft. 

In  severely  cold  weather  in  the  eastern  and  northern  states,  they  can  be  easily  heated 
by  steam,  hot  water,  or  furnace  heat  from  your  house,  or  a  stove  requiring  very  little  fuel 
can  be  installed.  Though  the  cottage  is  heated  to  the  desired  degree,  the  ventilation  takes 
place  in  the  regular  way,  as  above  outlined,  at  all  times.  Our  patent  construction  gives  a 
more  perfect  ventilation  than  that  attained  by  any  other  system  yet  invented. 

Others  have  bought  a  cottage  to  be  used  as  a  health  house  only.  There  are  many 
who  would  gladly  purchase  a  cottage  in  order  to  save  the  life  of  a  loved  one,  if  they  could 
but  be  brought  to  see  the  great  beneficial  effects  upon  the  patient  derived  from  its  use. 


Comfort,  Health, 'Durability,  Convenience,  Capacity,  if  you  live  in  a  Portable  Cottage. 


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A  NUMBER  OF  COTTAGES  have  been  sold  to  persons  afflicted  with  pulmonary 
and  other  diseases,  who  wished  to  take  treatment  at  home.  Thousands  of  lives 
would  be  saved  every  year  if  patients  could  but  sleep  in  our  cottages  every  night  instead  of 
in  a  plastered  house.  Some  people  have  been  sleeping  on  the  porches  of  their  homes,  but 
on  the  ordinary  porch  it  is  almost  impossible  to  be  secure  from  drafts  and  storms  as  desira¬ 
ble.  The  Walker  Cottage  gives  the  desired  protection  besides  all  the  benefits  of  good 
ventilation.  This  plan  of  living  should  appeal  to  the  bookkeeper,  clerk,  business  man  or 
mechanic,  who  get  very  little  pure  air,  night  or  day. 

Other  customers,  who  are  living  in  our  cottages,  are  renting  their  furnished  houses. 
In  some  instances  the  income  so  derived  has  paid  all  living  expenses,  but  in  addition  the 
general  health  of  the  family  has  been  greatly  increased. 

A  few  persons  who  are  owners  of  very  large  lots  have  put  up  a  number  of  cottages 
and  started  a  private  sanitarium.  To  women  who  are  good  nurses  this  opens  up  a  very 
profitable  field  of  employment  as  well  as  of  help  to  humanity.  A  small  capital  will  buy  a 
few  cottages. 


EARLY  FIFTY  YEARS  AGO  Florence  Nightingale  described  the  ideal  hospital 
^  ^  bed  as  a  hammock  hung  under  a  tree  with  an  umbrella  to  keep  off  the  sun;  for 
only  thus  could  the  air  inside  the  hospital  equal  in  purity  that  outside. 

To  plan  for  outside  home  life  means  making  provisions  for  sleeping  out  of  doors  and 
for  the  daily  work  to  be  done  outside  of  the  restriction  of  four  walls. 

It  is  evident  that  the  Creator  intended  man  to  spend  his  time  in  the  open  air,  since 
his  first  home  was  a  garden,  and  his  first  business  an  out-of-door  occupation.  Could  all 
sedentary  workers  spend  the  seven  to  nine  hours  of  sleep  in  a  clean,  out  door  atmosphere, 
many  of  the  evil  effects  of  indoor  sedentary  work  would  be  neutralized.  The  shop,  office 
or  factory  employee,  after  sleeping  in  the  pure  night  air,  would  awaken  invigorated  for  the 
day’s  demands  and  duties.  Beginning  the  day  aright,  with  a  keen  normal  appetite  for 
healthful  food,  he  would  be  able  to  utilize  his  working  energies  without  either  structural 
damage  to  the  tissues,  or  intellectual  or  moral  degradation. 

The  dweller  in  the  slums  is  not  the  only  foul-air  victim  ;  neither  is  tuberculosis  the 
only  contaminated-air  disorder.  Foul-air  dangers  lurk  in  the  isolated  farmhouse  and  artistic 
suburban  residence,  and  even  the  “stately  halls  with  frescoed  walls”  of  the  millionaire  are 
liable  to  foul-air  infection,  and  thus  the  life  of  the  pampered  child  of  wealth  and  fashion  is 
endangered.  Bacteria  and  bacilli  are  no  respecters  of  persons.  Downy  beds  of  ease  and 
tapestry-adorned  walls,  over-heated  and  unventilated,  are  just  as  productive  of  foul-air  dis¬ 
orders  if  close  and  unaired  as  are  the  humbler  apartments  of  those  possessed  of  but  a  scant 
remnant  of  the  world’s  wealth. 


PHE  WALKER  COTTAGE  should  not  be  classed  with  the  cheap,  unhealthful  tents 
A  usually  furnished  renters  at  tent  cities.  They  are  no  more  alike  than  a  $5000  house 
is  like  a  $500  shack.  A  Walker  Cottage  can  be  rented  without  any  trouble,  whether  lo¬ 
cated  at  the  sea-shore  or  on  your  vacant  lot  in  the  city. 


Our  Cottages  having  tVJo  floors,  haVe  double  the  capacity  of  others  of  similar  size. 


SANITARY  COTTAGE 


A  NEW  METHOD  OF  CONSTRUCTION. 


/TvHE  COTTAGE  HOUSE  SHOWN  ABOVE  is  our  regular  No.  3U,  size  12x24, 
A  and  is  one  of  our  most  popular  sizes.  In  this  house  our  new  method  of  construction 
leaves  more  head  room  for  the  upper  floor,  it  being  7  feet  in  height  between  the  upper 
floor  and  center  ridge.  This  makes  the  upper  room  much  more  desirable  in  every  way. 
Having  this  extra  height  over  the  door,  a  porch  can  be  put  on  to  much  better  advantage. 
The  door  can  swing  outwTard,  while  in  houses  with  lower  roofs  the  door  has  to  swing  in¬ 
ward  if  a  porch  is  built. 

Cottages  can  be  covered  with  wood  or  iron  as  well  as  canvas,  on  the  same  frame, 
though  canvas  is  recommended  as  most  comfortable  and  healthful  for  summer  as  well  as 
all  year  round  use. 

We  desire  to  particularly  impress  upon  your  mind,  the  fact  that  the  Walker  Portable 
Cottage  better  meets  all  requirements  as  a  portable  cottage,  than  any  other  to-day  on  the 
market,  whether  you  desire  to  use  for  invalid  purposes,  or  as  a  summer  cottage,  or  a  poor 
man’s  home. 


Huy  a  Walker  ‘Portable  Cottage  and  enjoy  the  pleasure  and  freedom  of  family  associa= 

tion,  home  cooking ,  and  out=door  living. 


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THE  WALKEK  "PORTABLE 


PHE  ABOVE  ILLUSTRATION  shows  our  No.  3 '4  cottage  with  screen  windows, 
the  same  general  plan  being  used  as  in  our  upper  floor  end  windows.  The  outside 
curtained  window  can  be  thrown  out  and  fastened  at  any  angle  desired,  by  a  cord  from  the 
inside.  When  open,  it  serves  as  an  awning  over  the  window.  When  closed,  it  is  locked 
by  slightly  raising  the  inside  screen  window.  These  can  be  placed  on  one  or  both  sides  of 
the  cottage  at  an  extra  net  price  of  $7.50  for  each  window. 

Think  of  the  many  uses  for  a  Walker  Portable  Cottage,  as  follows: 

Summer  Cottages,  Photograph  Galleries,  Real  Estate  Offices,  Contractors’  Offices 
and  as  living  quarters  for  his  help,  Shooting  Galleries,  Hospitals,  Army  Officers’  Quarters, 
Bath  Houses,  Pest  Houses,  Voting  Precincts,  Eruit,  Candy,  Cigar  and  Restaurant  Stands 
at  fairs  and  parks,  also  as  sleeping  quarters,  Automobile  Houses,  Children’s  Play  Houses, 
and  for  the  hunter,  the  fisherman,  the  miner,  the  surveyor,  the  rancher  and  numerous 
other  uses. 


Keep  in  mind  the  fact  that  We  cover  the  frame  of  our  cottage  With  Wood  or  iron  (if  you 

prefer)  though  We  recommend  the  canVas. 


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DOUBLE  COTTAGES. 


PHE  ABOVE  ILLUSTRATION  shows  how  our  cottages  would  look  with  a  No.  1 
A  or  No.  2  cottage,  as  an  ell.  By  this  method  of  construction,  the  ell  can  be  used  as 
a  kitchen  and  dining-room,  while  the  upper  floor  can  be  used  as  a  bedroom  for  the  ser¬ 
vants,  the  covered  passageway  connecting  the  two  cottages,  making  practically  a  hallway 
between  the  two.  A  toilet  or  bath-room,  or  both  can  he  placed  between  the  two  cottages 
if  desired. 

PRICE  LIST. 


No.  2/4  cottage  connected  with 
No.  3/4  cottage  connected  with 
No.  4/2  cottage  connected  with 
No.  4/4  cottage  connected  with 
No.  5/4  cottage  connected  with 
No.  5  /2  cottage  connected  with 


No.  1,  complete 
No.  2,  complete 
No.  1,  complete 
No.  2,  complete 
No.  1,  complete 
No.  2,  complete 


$500 

550 

575 

610 

650 

700 


You  need  haVe no  fear  of  rain,  Wind,  heat,  flies,  mosquitoes  or  ant;  other  similar  annoys 
ances  of  tent  and  other  portable  house  dwelling  if  you  buy  a  Walker  Cottage. 


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THE  WALKER^  PORTABLE 


COTTAGES  WITH  END  ENTRANCES. 


TO  MEET  THE  REQUIREMENTS  of  some  of  our  customers,  we  make  some  of 
our  cottages  with  doorway  and  windows  at  the  end,  instead  of  at  the  side.  This  is 
a  desirable  feature,  when  the  lot  is  25  feet  wide  or  less.  As  our  regular  size  cottages  are 
only  12  feet  wide,  quite  a  bit  of  space  is  left  at  each  side  for  flowers  or  shrubs.  As  a  large 
number  of  beach  lots  are  only  25  feet  wide,  it  is  especially  desirable  in  such  cases  to  place 
the  doorways  at  the  ends.  There  is  no  extra  charge  for  changing  the  position  of  the  door¬ 
way  from  the  side  to  the  end. 

By  the  above  method  of  construction,  if  you  have  a  narrow  but  deep  lot,  two  or  more 
cottages  can  be  set  up  on  the  same  lot  by  putting  them  back  of  each  other,  and  still  allow 
plenty  of  room  for  air  and  light.  For  a  renting  proposition  this  plan  is  often  followed;  as 
you  are  able  in  this  way  to  get  the  most  income  possible  from  a  narrow  lot. 


Most  people  Who  live  at,  or  go  to  the  sea  shore,  mountain,  lake  or  country.  Will  appre° 
date  hoW  easily  these  cottages  can  be  rented  {if  furnished)  at  from  $15  to 
$25  per  Week  ( according  to  locality  and  demand) — each  making 
you  from  50  to  100 %  per  season  on  your  investment. 


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YOU  CAN  HAVE,  A  PORCH  IF  YOU  WISH. 


pHE  ABOVE  ILLUSTRATION  shows  how  the  Walker  Cottage  appears  when 
A  huilt  with  a  porch  across  the  front.  (One  of  the  cottages  is  made  with  the  entrance 
at  the  side,  and  the  other  with  the  entrance  at  the  end.)  The  porches  are  6  feet  in 
width.  A  canvas  curtain  can  be  provided,  which  will  button  over  the  end  of  the  porch 
and  part  way  across  the  front,  forming  a  secluded  nook  sheltered  from  the  wind.  With 
two  porch  curtains,  you  can  have  a  sheltered  nook  at  each  side  of  the  doorway. 

If  porches  are  required,  they  should  be  ordered  when  placing  order  for  the  cottage,  so 
the  necessary  fittings  can  be  put  on  at  the  factory.  Porches  running  the  whole  length  of 
the  building,  are  only  put  on  our  Nos.  2%,  3/4,  4  /4  and  5}4  cottages.  The  prices  for 
porches  will  range  according  to  size  of  cottage  or  desired  length  and  width.  Give  us  your 
ideas  and  we  will  make  to  order. 


Do  you  Value  your  health  and  that  of  your  family.  Then  lead  the  simple  life  for  a 
few  months  in  the  summer  in  a  Walker  ‘Portable  Cottage  and  Watch  the  results. 


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THE  WALKEK  PORTABLE 


PATENTED  AUG.  1905,  AND  SEPT.  25,  1906. 
Seventeen  Claims  Allowed. 


Pay  particular  attention  to  our  frame  construction  and  the  method  of  bracing- 

notice  hoW  easily  it  can  he  erected. 


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pHE  CUT  OPPOSITE  shows  frame-work  of  cottage  12x18  feet,  with  the  exception 
of  the  upper  floor,  the  stairway  and  the  stay-rods.  It  is  seen  from  frame-work  that 
it  is  not  a  tent,  but  a  substantial  frame  which  can  be  sided  up  and  shingled  if  desired. 
The  wood  composing  the  frame  is  the  very  best  of  lumber,  surfaced  on  four  sides,  and  the 
fittings  are  all  of  steel,  therefore  will  last  as  long  as  any  house. 

INSTRUCTIONS  FOR  ERECTING  COTTAGE. 

THIRST  PROVIDE  A  LEVEL  FOUNDATION.  We  recommend  the  use  of  three 
mud-sills  4x4  ins.,  running  the  full  length  of  the  cottage,  as  foundation  for  the  joists. 
The  sills  may  by  blocked  up  as  high  as  desired. 

Lay  out  the  2x4  in.  joists  for  first  floor,  placing  the  joists  Nos.  1-8,  2-7  etc.,  in  their 
correct  relative  places.  Then  pick  out  from  the  sticks  the  upright  posts  Nos.  1,  8,  2,  7, 
etc.,  and  the  overhead  joists  Nos.  1-8,  2-7,  etc.,  and  place  them  in  fittings  in  their  proper 
positions,  6  ft.  apart  at  the  base,  as  shown  in  figure.  Then  lay  out  each  completed  bent, 
allowing  them  to  overlap  at  the  top.  Before  raising,  push  keps  into  staples  at  bottom  of 
posts. 

Now  insert  ends  2  and  7  of  plates  Nos.  1-2  and  7-8  in  respective  fittings  at  tops  of 
posts  with  corresponding  numbers,  before  raising.  Now  raise  bent  No.  1-8,  then  raise 
bent  No.  2-7,  until  ends  (of  plates)  1  and  8  come  into  their  proper  places  in  fittings. 

Now  proceed  with  the  remaining  bents  in  the  same  manner.  You  will  find  that  each 
section  will  stand  alone  until  the  succeeding  bent  has  been  raised.  After  the  posts  have 
been  thus  erected,  the  stay-rods  should  be  put  in  place,  and  the  next  the  lower  floor. 
Then  hang  stairway  and  lay  upper  floor.  Now  drop  rafters  into  fittings  and  hook  on 
ridge  fittings,  at  the  same  time  putting  the  supporting  rods  in  place.  Then  set  ridge-pole. 
Put  braces  Nos.  1  and  2  into  place  before  dropping  ridge  No.  2  into  fittings.  Tighten 
nuts  on  supporting-rods  until  the  upper  floor  is  level. 

Now  set  in  the  doors  and  windows  on  the  first  floor,  Leave  the  windows  on  second 
floor  until  after  the  canvas  has  been  put  on.  (In  putting  in  sash  in  the  gables,  set  in 
screen  on  the  inside  and  swing  the  outer  sash  on  rod  so  that  canvas  cover  laps  over  canvas 
end  along  the  outside  of  the  jambs.  Be  sure  to  draw  canvas  flap  in  over  the  top  of  the 
outer  sash  and  push  the  end  down  between  the  screen  and  outer  sash.)  The  frame  is 
now  ready  for  the  canvas. 

To  put  on  canvas:  First  put  on  end  curtains,  commencing  at  the  peak  on  each  end 
to  button  canvas.  Slip  baseboards  in  slot  at  corners,  in  wide  hem  at  bottom,  and  also 
window-stops  at  the  side  of  window.  Observe  that  short  notch  in  said  stop  is  at  top  and 
on  the  outside  before  you  insert  in  slot  on  underside  of  steel  socket.  Then  push  strip 
edgewise  in  notch  in  floor  and  push  baseboard  in  its  notch  at  the  bottom  by  pressing 
downward  and  inward.  Then  drive  wedge  into  staple  at  base  of  post. 

Now  put  on  roof.  Commence  at  front  of  cottage,  hook  pockets  over  ends  of  rafters. 
Draw  canvas  over  ridge  and  hook  pockets  on  opposite  side  over  corresponding  rafter  ends. 
Then  slip  cornice  supports  at  ends  into  pockets  in  canvas  first  ;  then  drop  them  into  steel 
sockets.  Now  slip  stretching-boards  into  slots  at  corners  on  the  underside  of  canvas  and 
pull  each  into  place — the  end  boards  along  cornice  into  the  notches  at  the  ends  of  cornice 
supports  first,  and  then  the  boards  along  the  eaves  into  notches  at  ends  of  rafters.  Then 
button  on  tuck  along  gable  ends. 

5 Place  floors  by  commencing  at  piece  No.  1  and  working  to  right  to  No.  3,  and  back 
to  the  left  place  No.  4,  and  so  on  as  shown  in  cut. 

To  place  doors.  Drop  door  posts  into  mortise  in  floor  and  place  mortised  rail  over 
tenons  at  top  of  posts. 

The  sections  of  upper  floor  will  correspond  in  number  to  sections  of  the  lower  floor. 


10  to  1  it's  a  Walker  Portable  When  you  buy. 


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INTERIOR  VIEW. 

THE  ABOVE  CUT  is  an  interior  of  a  No.  2  Walker  Cottage.  It  shows  the  folding 
stairway  when  in  position  for  use.  When  not  in  use,  the  stairway,  which  swings  on 
a  steel  rod,  can  be  swung  up  under  the  upper  floor  and  hooked  up  out  of  the  way. 
The  distance  between  floors  is  7  feet.  The  distance  between  the  ridge  and  upper  floor  is 
6  feet.  T  he  Nos.  1,  2,  3,  4  and  5  cottages  are  all  built  with  the  upper  floor  same  height. 
Our  Nos.  1/4,  2/4,  3}4,  4/4  and  5}4  have  7  feet  between  the  floor  and  ridge,  making 
much  more  room  for  the  upper  floor. 

The  cut  shows  two  single  beds  at  the  far  end  of  the  upper  floor.  Two  more  beds 
can  be  put  in,  still  leaving  plenty  of  room  to  store  trunks  if  necessary. 

On  the  lower  floor  is  shown  a  gasoline  or  gas  stove  on  the  right  of  the  stairway.  No 
stove  pipe  is  needed.  If  a  wood  or  coal  stove  is  used  the  chimney  can  project  out  through 
the  side  or  end,  or  straight  up  through  the  roof,  by  using  a  stove  pipe  ring  riveted  through 
asbestos  to  the  canvas.  A  hole  cut  through  the  end  wall,  with  a  chimney  supported  on 
the  outside,  is  preferable. 

At  the  farther  end  of  the  lower  floor  is  shown  a  sanitary  couch  on  the  right,  and  two 
folding  beds  on  the  left.  The  upper  bed  is  usually  folded  up  against  the  wall  of  the  cot¬ 
tage  when  not  in  use.  I  he  lower  bed  is  generally  used  as  a  couch,  but  can  also  be  folded 
up  against  the  wall. 

A  piano  is  shown.  It  has  been  found  that  a  piano  is  not  injured  by  being  kept  in  a 
Walker  Cottage.  A  table  large  enough  to  seat  a  dozen  people  occupies  the  center  of  the 
room. 

I  he  illustration  gives  some  idea  of  how  cosy  and  comfortable  these  cottages  may  be 
made  by  the  exercise  of  a  little  ingenuity  and  taste. 


The  more  you  investigate  Portable  Cottages ,  the  surer  toe  are  of  your  order. 


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DO  YOU  VALUE  YOUR  HEALTH  ? 

OR 

THE,  WALKER  COTTAGE 
AS  A  FOE  TO  TUBERCULOSIS. 


PHERE  ARL  I  WO  MILLION  sufferers  from  tuberculosis  in  the  United  States 
A  to-day.  Eight  million  out  of  75,000,000  people  die  of  consumption.  Less  than  8000 
can  be  properly  accommodated  in  national,  state  and  private  sanitariums.  Consequently  the 
majority  of  the  consumptives  in  this  country  must  take  care  of  themselves,  furnishing  their 
own  private  sanitarium,  being  treated  at  home  by  the  family  physician. 

There  is  one  death  reported  every  three  minutes  from  consumption — five  will  die 
while  you  are  reading  this  pamphlet — four  hundred  and  eighty  families  will  gather  about 
the  caskets  of  their  dead  within  the  next  twenty-four  hours — 14,000  deaths  every  month  ; 
172,800  every  year.  The  ravages  of  consumption  head  the  death  list  in  every  city  of  the 
United  States.  Of  the  deaths  between  the  ages  of  fifteen  and  forty-five,  one-third  are 
from  consumption.  Statistics  show  that  one-seventh  of  all  deaths  are  from  consumption. 

Dark  rooms,  overcrowded  flats,  lack  of  sunshine,  indoor  work  and  unsanitary  sur¬ 
roundings,  the  occupying  of  the  quarters  where  an  unsanitary  consumptive  lives  or  has 
lived,  are  the  chief  causes  of  the  scourge. 


TUBERCULOSIS  IS  COMMUNICABLE,  but  it  is  not  a  contagious  disease  in  the 
A  sense  that  smallpox  is  contagious.  The  danger  in  a  consumptive  relative  or  friend 
is  made  null  by  the  burning  of  the  sputum  and  the  care  of  the  patient  on  sanitary  lines. 
Consumption  is  a  house  disease. 

T  T  IS  ACKNOWLEDGED  that,  of  all  known  treatments,  the  fresh-air  treatment  is 
^  the  most  successful.  In  middle  Massachusetts,  there  are  many  cures  from  such  treat¬ 
ment  where  the  climate  is  of  necessity,  bad.  Thirty-eight  per  cent,  are  cured  there,  how¬ 
ever,  by  the  fresh-air  treatment,  while  it  is  claimed  that  the  average  for  all  America  is 
about  forty  per  cent.  So  that  we  feel  safe  in  saying  that,  provided  the  patient  has  the 
right  kind  of  rest  and  nourishing  food  and  plenty  of  sunlight,  he  stands  a  good  chance  to 
regain  health  in  any  place,  if  the  disease  is  not  too  far  advanced.  In  consumption,  too,  a 
very  few  days  lost  in  applying  a  cure  will  be  enough  to  lose  the  life  of  a  patient.  So  do 
not  waste  a  day  in  seeing  that  the  sanitary  sorroundings  of  the  patient  are  perfectly  satis¬ 
factory. 


/CONSUMPTION  IS  CURABLE  AND  PREVENTABLE.  The  Walker  Cottage 
offers  a  pleasant  and  effective  means  for  fighting  that  terrible  scourge.  Many 
afflicted  with  that  dread  disease  are  not  financially  able  to  leave  home  in  order  to  get  the 
benefit  of  a  better  climate  or  a  higher  altitude.  But  with  a  Walker  Cottage,  for  a  small 
investment,  the  patient  may  provide  himself  with  a  cottage  which  is  rapidly  being  adopted 
by  the  sanitaria  of  the  country  and  which  will  make  for  him  not  only  a  splendid  health 
house  but  also  a  comfortable  and  cosy  home.  We  regard  our  Special  Sanitary  Cottage 
as  the  finest  sanitary  cottage  built.  Any  doctor  who  has  seen  them  will  corroborate  our 
statement. 


Are  you  a  consumptive  ?  Do  you  know  What  great  benefit  a  Walker  "Portable  Cottage 

Would  be  to  you  in  aiding  your  recovery  ? 


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The  most  successful  treatment  for  tuberculosis  of  the 

lungs  consists  of  fresh,  pure  air  twenty-four  hours  a  day,  sleeping  in  a  Walker  Sani¬ 
tary  Cottage,  well  regulated  exercise  and  amusement,  drinking  plenty  of  milk  and  eating 
nutritious  food.  Any  part  of  America,  or  anywhere  else,  can  give  these  cardinal  facilities  tor  a  “cure.” 

This  treatment  alone  will,  in  many  cases,  put  the  invalid  on  his  or  her  feet  in  thirty  days, 
and  cure  a  large  percentage  of  the  patients.  In  countless  cases,  where  the  individual  has 
just  been  “touched,”  after  a  heavy  cold,  such  treatment  will  completely  eliminate  the 
bacilli  from  the  system,  and  it  is  perfectly  safe  to  return  to  business  pursuits  and  occupa¬ 
tions,  by  continuing  the  proper  sanitary  percautions. 


/CONSUMPTION  IS  DESTRUCTIVE.  It  consumes  the  tissues  of  the  lungs  vital 
^  to  life.  When  a  tuberculosis  sufferer  has  been  cured,  generally  speaking,  this  de¬ 
struction  is  checked,  and  the  person  so  cured  is  still  minus  the  tissues  that  have  been  de¬ 
stroyed.  You  cannot  build  new  lungs.  But  you  can  surround  the  patient  with  perfectly 
healthful  surroundings,  thus  giving  the  fullest  opportunity  for  regaining  vitality.  Though 
a  man  should  lose  one  lung,  yet  with  but  one  lung  a  man  still  has  a  chance  for  many 
years  of  useful  life.  Many  a  “one-lunger”  has  lived  a  long  life  after  the  disease  was  cured. 
The  Walker  Cottage  is  built  with  such  persons  especially  in  mind.  Write  us  for  full  in¬ 
formation. 


TUBERCULOSIS  ylFFLICTS  MANY . 

T^HERE  HAS  BEEN  A  FIFTY  PER  CENT  INCREASE  in  the  number  of  tuber- 
culosis  patients  at  the  city  sanitarium  within  the  last  month.  Until  the  first  of  the 
year  the  number  has  never  exceeded  fifty,  now  there  are  seventy-five.  Many  of  the  un¬ 
fortunates  who  applied  for  admission  were  in  the  advanced  stages  of  the  disease.  They 
had  neglected  to  ask  for  assistance  until  the  “white  terror”  had  fastened  its  clutches  on 
them  so  strongly  that  there  was  practically  no  hope  of  recovery.  This  has  resulted  in 
a  largely  increased  death  rate  in  that  department  of  the  city  infirmary. 

Those  who  are  physically  strong  enough  to  stand  the  treatment  are  sleeping  each 
night  on  the  porch  of  the  sanitarium.  The  only  protection  against  the  winter’s  cold  is  a 
canvas  flap,  stretched  from  the  roof  to  the  floor  of  the  veranda.  Of  course  they  are  well 
covered  with  blankets,  only  their  noses  and  mouths  being  exposed.  Monday  night,  the 
coldest  of  the  winter,  eighteen  patients  were  on  the  porch  all  night.  There  are  many  at 
the  institution  who  insist  on  sleeping  out  of  doors,  no  matter  how  severe  the  weather  may 
be.  There  is  a  dread  of  the  treatment  for  a  few  nights,  and  then  the  patient  asks  for  the 
privilege.  In  almost  every  instance  it  has  proved  beneficial.  Six  weeks  ago  one  man 
came  to  the  institution  in  a  very  weakened  condition.  He  was  thin  and  emaciated,  and 
it  was  feared  that  he  had  waited  too  long.  He  asked  for  a  cot  on  the  porch,  and,  although 
it  was  thought  that  it  would  not  do  him  any  appreciable  good,  he  was  accommodated. 
This  week  the  man  was  discharged  from  the  sanitarium.  He  is  appearentlv  recovered. 
He  has  gained  in  weight  to  a  remarkable  extent,  and  his  cough  has  disappeared.  This  is 
only  one  of  the  many  instances  of  the  kind.  —  Cleveland  Press ,  February  17 ,  1905. 


If  you  are  a  sufferer — rent  or  buy  a  Walter  "Portable  Cottage  and  bless  the  day. 


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BEST  REMEDY  IS  FRESH  AIR. 

DR.  KNOPF  TELLS  OF  HOW 
TO  CUKE  TUBERCULOSIS. 


~^\R.  S.  A.  KNOPF  appeared  before  the  Anti-Tuberculosis  League  at  the  Women’s 
Club  House  last  night  and  talked  for  an  hour  or  more  upon  the  topic,  “Warfare 
Against  Tuberculosis.” 

H  is  lecture  last  night  was  before  an  audience  that  filled  every  chair  in  the  club  house, 
but  it  was  not  what  might  be  termed  a  “learned”  disquisition  upon  the  subject,  but,  gen¬ 
erally  speaking,  an  aggregation  of  practical  hints  on  the  handling  of  patients  for  preventing 
the  spread  of  contagion. 

“I  want  it  distinctly  understood,”  he  said  at  the  outset,  “that  the  warfare  against 
tuberculosis  is  not  a  warfare  against  persons  afflicted  with  tuberculosis  but  against  the 
disease. 

“Tuberculosis  is  a  chronic,  infectious,  preventable  and  curable  disease,”  he  said,  after 
making  the  statement  that  the  mortality  from  this  disease  is  greater  than  from  any  other 
disease. 

In  taking  up  the  subject  of  danger  from  contagion,  he  said  that  a  consumptive  who 
expectorates  freely  can  expell  seven  billion  bacilli  in  twenty-four  hours,  thus  causing  the 
air  to  be  filled  with  bacilli-laden  dust.  He  went  into  the  details  as  how  best  a  patient  can 
dispose  of  the  sputi  without  subjecting  his  fellows  to  infection  from  his  carelessness,  and 
gave  illustrations  to  show  that  the  honest  consumptive  who  wants  to  avoid  such  danger,  is 
sometimes  ostracised  and  treated  like  an  outcast. 

He  gave  the  four  causes  of  consumption  to  be  infection,  tainted  food,  inoculation,  * 
and  drop  infection. 

“There  is  no  such  thing  as  hereditary  tuberculosis,”  he  declared.  “It  is  never  trans¬ 
mitted,  though  there  may  be  a  predisposition  to  it  and  lack  of  care  on  the  part  of  persons 
afflicted  with  the  disease  may  result  in  infecting  children  and  others  with  whom  they  come 
in  contact. 

“We  can  cure  from  80  to  90  per  cent  of  the  cases;  we  give  a  little  medicine  now  and 
then,  but  do  not  rely  on  it  as  a  specific.  We  cure  simply  by  the  unstinted  use  of  God’s 
pure  air  twenty-four  hours  in  the  day;  plenty  of  good,  pure  water,  inside  and  outside; 
plenty  of  plain,  wholesome  food,  and  plenty  of  sunshine.” — Los  Angeles  Times ,  July 
31,  1906. 

OVEJW  CU'R.E  IN  CONNECTICUT . 


1I7ITH  THE  MERCURY  30  DEGREES  BELOW  ZERO,  Mrs.  George  A.  All- 
*  "  worth  and  Miss  Alice  L.  Flint  slept  all  night  in  the  open  air  on  the  veranda  of 
their  home  here.  Miss  Flint  is  the  daughter  of  Geo.  E.  Flint,  a  silver  mill  foreman. 
Mrs.  Allworth  and  she  are  consumptives.  Last  July  their  cases  were  declared  hopeless. 
As  a  last  resort,  a  physician  advised  sleeping  in  the  open  air.  They  have  not  slept  a  night 
indoors  since.  Throughout  the  winter  they  have  established  their  bed  on  an  upper  veranda 
promptly  at  9  P.  M.  Their  bed  clothing  has  consisted  of  one  blanket  and  one  comforta¬ 
ble.  In  case  of  rain  or  snow  a  rubber  covering  is  used.  Last  night  an  extra  blanket  was 
added.  So  inured  have  they  become  to  the  rigors  of  winter  that  this  morning  they  re¬ 
ported  they  had  not  been  cold  throughout  the  night. 


Why  not  oWn  your  oWn  sanitarium.  Buy  a  Walker  Portable  Cottage .  Place  on  your 

laVOn  or  take  to  the  mountain  or  riverside  at  home. 


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THE  WALKER.  PORTABLE 


Their  physician  says  both  women  have  lost  nearly  all  trace  of  tuberculosis,  and  that 
three  months  more  of  heroic  treatment  will  cure  then.  The  complexion  of  both  has  be¬ 
come  a  ruddy  brown  from  exposure,  and  indoors  they  complain  of  the  heat  if  the  tempera¬ 
ture  of  the  house  is  over  fifty  degrees.  Miss  Flint  has  gained  twenty-five  pounds  in 
weight,  and  both  have  hearty  appetites. — Meridan ,  Conn.,  Jan.  7. 


GIVES  FIGURES  OJV  DEViTH  RVITE. 

/ 

CENSUS  BUREAU  PRESENTS  STATISTICS  SHOWING  GREATEST 
MORTALITY  DUE  TO  TUBERCULOUS  AND  PNEUMONIA. 

ALL  DISEASES  REQUIRE  IT. 


npUBERCULOSIS  OF  THE  LUNGS  AND  PNEUMONIA  were  the  leading 
causes  of  death  in  the  United  States  according  to  a  special  report  on  mortality  in 
1904,  issued  by  the  census  bureau.  The  statistics  are  restricted  to  the  cities  and  states 
which  possess  records  affording  satisfactory  data,  the  states  covered  being  Connecticut,  In¬ 
diana,  Maine,  Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  New  Jersey,  New  York,  Rhode  Island, 
Vermont,  together  with  the  District  of  Columbia.  They  and  the  334  cities  reporting  em¬ 
braced  more  than  two-fifths  of  the  estimated  population  of  the  United  States.  The  death 
rate  per  1,000  in  the  registration  is  16.7  less  than  in  any  foreign  country  except  Norway 
and  Sweden. 

The  report  says  :  “The  average  annual  mortality  for  tuberculosis  from  1900  to  1904 
was  172.6  per  100,000  population.  In  1890  it  was  245.4.  More  than  half  of  the  deaths 
from  this  cause  occurred  between  the  ages  of  20  and  40. 


OVEN  VIIK  TREATMENT 

CURES  NEBRASKA  WOMAN 

of  consumption. 

OLEEPING  EVERY  NIGHT  AND  LIVING  EVERY  DAY  in  the  open  air 
^  throughout  the  present  winter,  the  severest  Nebraska  has  ever  known,  Mrs.  A.  J. 
Salem,  of  this  city,  has  been  cured  of  consumption,  and  since  October  1  has  gained  forty 
pounds  in  weight.  Last  summer  physicians  told  Mrs.  Salem  that  she  had  tuberculosis. 
She  then  weighed  118  pounds.  She  realized  that  her  case  required  heroic  treatment.  She 
was  a  firm  believer  in  the  curative  properties  of  fresh  air,  so  she  set  up  a  little  tent  on  the 
grounds  surrounding  her  home,  and  ever  since  September  has  slept  and  lived  in  it.  Within 
the  last  month  the  temperature  has  dropped  to  35  degrees  below  zero  and  most  of  the  time 
it  has  been  below  zero,  but  despite  the  bitter  cold  Mrs.  Salem  has  slept  in  her  tent  every 
night  and  spent  most  of  her  days  there.  She  has  had  no  fire,  simply  putting  on  extra 
wraps  when  she  felt  cold.  Every  night  just  before  retiring  she  has  bathed  in  ice  cold 
water,  and  then  rubbed  herself  down  with  a  coarse  towel.  She  says  she  does  not  now  feel 
the  severest  cold,  when  she  is  warmly  clad.  Her  physicians  say  she  is  out  of  danger. — 
Special  Dispatch  to  the  Enquirer ,  Norfolk ,  Neb. 


The  Walker  Portable  Cottage  is  the  only  really  Sanitary  Cottage  for  Summer  and 

Winter  use.  Ventilation  and  comfort  at  all  seasons. 


SANITARY  COTTAGE 


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NEW  TREATMENT  NOW  used 

FOR  SAVING  VARIES 
FROM  PNEUMONIA. 


The  PRESBTT  LRIAN  HOSPITAL  OF  NEW  YORK  has  introduced  the  system 
A  of  treating  child  pneumonia  patients  in  the  open  air  on  the  roof. 

1  hey  are  kept  there  in  all  weathers  unless  it  snows  or  rains  heavily. 

Since  the  first  trial  of  the  treatment,  a  year  ago,  only  one  child  has  died  of  pneumo¬ 
nia,  whereas  the  previous  death  rate  was  25  per  cent. 

This  hospital  is  the  first  to  employ  the  open  air  method. 

Ehe  treatment  is  at  present  confined  to  children  because  there  is  only  room  for  them 
on  the  roof  and  they  are  the  most  difficult  to  save.  It  will  be  applied  to  all  persons  when 
conditions  permit.  The  hospital  has  been  presented  with  $10,000  to  build  a  permanent, 
all-the-year-round  open  ward  on  the  roof.  It  will  be  built  in  the  shape  of  a  country  meet¬ 
ing  house  horse  shed,  open  to  the  south.  In  it  patients  with  septic  fever,  acute  pneumo¬ 
nia,  nervous  dyspepsia  and  anaemia  will  be  treated. 

The  first  roof  experiment  with  a  child  pneumonia  patient  took  place  about  a  year 
ago.  "Ehe  child  was  lying  at  the  point  of  death.  At  the  suggestion  of  Dr.  William  P. 
Northrup,  of  No.  57  East  Seventy-ninth  street,  one  of  the  attending  physicians,  the  child 
was  carried  to  the  roof  “to  get  a  breath  of  fresh  air,”  for  his  respiration  in  the  ward  seemed 
about  to  cease. 

The  almost  immediate  change  was  surprising  ;  the  hurried  breathing  became  slower, 
more  regular  and  deeper,  the  thread-like  running  pulse  grew  stronger  and  slower,  and  the 
temperature,  which  was  up  to  105  degrees,  soon  dropped.  "Ehe  child  got  well. 

Dr.  Northrup  became  an  ardent  advocate  of  the  open-air  treatment,  and  his  enthu¬ 
siasm  was  soon  shared  by  all  the  members  of  the  house  staff  and  the  nurses.  Ehe  roof 
was  then  fitted  up  as  an  auxiliary  ward,  with  wind  shields  and  such  other  appropriate  pro¬ 
tection  as  the  various  weather  conditions  demanded.  The  only  child  patient  who  has 
died  since  then  had  double  pneumonia  which  resulted  in  empyema,  demanding  an  opera¬ 
tion,  and  also  rickets.  The  case  was  one  in  which  it  was  evident  from  the  inception  of 
the  infection  that  death  would  ensue. 

This  open-air  treatment  is  diametrically  opposed  to  that  previously  employed.  The  old 
method  of  treatment,  laid  down  with  nicety  and  exactness  by  all  writers  on  the  subject, 
was  to  encase  the  pneumonia  patient’s  chest  in  cotton  batting,  protected  by  an  outer  coat¬ 
ing  of  oiled  silk.  Ehe  patient’s  room  was  then  made  as  nearly  air-tight  as  possible,  and 
was  kept  hot  to  an  uncomfortable  degree.  The  advocates  of  the  open-air  treatment  now 
declare  that  these  are  most  irrational  measures.  The  air  quickly  becomes  foul  and  the 
functions  of  the  lungs,  already  hampered  to  the  danger  point  by  the  consolidation  of  the 
pulmonary  tissues,  become  further  impared  by  the  poisonous  germ-laden  air  that  grows 
more  dangerous  to  health  and  life  with  each  inspiration. 

Formerly,  when  pneumonia  patients  were  literally  burned  up  with  fever  and  clamored 
for  cooling  drinks,  these  were  refused,  or  at  least  were  confined  to  tiny  sips.  I  he  doctors 
at  the  Presbyterian  allow  their  patients  plenty  of  fresh  water,  and  the  results  are  as  grati¬ 
fying  to  them  as  the  draughts  are  to  the  patients. 


The  Walker  Portable  Cottage  is  the  ideal  home  for  many  purposes ,  temporary  or  per = 

manent.  Summer  or  Winter. 


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The  plan  of  treatment  is  simple  in  the  extreme,  and  is  based  primarily  on  the  fact  that 
a  patient  with  a  high  fever  and  a  dry  skin  cannot  catch  cold.  It  is  also  recognized  that  the 
feet  must  be  kept  warm.  Plenty  of  water,  in  small  quantities  at  a  time,  is  administered 
on  the  theory  that  it  helps  sweep  from  the  system  the  poisons  generated  by  the  disease. 
Food  easy  of  digestion  must  be  administered,  so  as  not  to  tax  the  digestive  functions  un¬ 
duly  when  the  entire  physical  system  is  organized  to  combat  an  army  of  germs  that  have 
attacked  the  lungs. 

Cough  is  relived  by  expectorants,  of  which  those  containing  carbonate  of  ammonia 
are  especially  useful.  The  tendency  to  fever  is  held  in  check  by  quinine.  The  patient 
principally  is  fed  on  milk  and  soups. 

Dr.  C.  Irving  Fisher,  the  superintendent  of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital;  Dr.  Northrup, 
and  other  members  of  the  staff  of  the  institution,  have  no  doubt  that  the  open-air  treat¬ 
ment  for  pneumonia  will  be  adopted  all  over  the  world  as  soon  as  its  benefits  are  under¬ 
stood. 

This  will  be  a  step  in  the  direction  of  treating  many  diseases  with  fresh  air  instead  of 
semi-suffocation.  In  many  diseases  accompanied  by  fever,  where  the  patient  is  choking  to 
death,  the  custom  has  been  to  shut  up  all  the  windows,  hang  heavy  curtains  over  them 
and  keep  up  the  temperature  of  the  room.  Physicians  have  gone  over  to  the  fresh-air  side 
in  many  cases,  but  they  still  have  to  contend  with  the  popular  prejudice  that  fresh  air  is 
dangerous.  In  future,  when  they  can  point  to  the  fact  that  the  roof  treatment  in  a  great 
hospital  has  reduced  the  mortality  from  pneumonia  from  25  per  cent  to  practically  nothing, 
they"^rT+Wa^ve  less  difficulty  in  persuading  people  to  give  fresh  air  a  trial. 

In  the  United  States  416,000  die  annually  of  pneumonia. 


DR.  H.  M.  THOMAS  OF  CHICAGO 

SOUNDS  WS1KNING. 

/^VXYGEN  REDUCES  FEVER,  aids  digestion,  gives  refreshing  sleep  and  heals  the 
lungs.  There  is  much  fear  of  breathing  night  air.  What  other  air  is  there  to 
breathe  at  night  but  night  air  ?  Pure  night  air  is  healthful.  Impure  night  air  breeds  dis¬ 
ease.  Breathe  we  must.  There  is  but  one  choice,  pure  or  impure  night  air. 

What  are  the  sources  of  impure  air  ?  Mainly  the  home  and  the  workshop.  Tuber¬ 
culosis  is  a  house  disease;  it  depends  upon  the  home  for  implantation,  growth,  maturity 
and  propagation.  The  house  is  the  granary  of  the  bacillus.  Houses  of  one  kind  and 
another  are  the  ordinary  means  of  spreading  tuberculosis.  The  house  is  the  most  frequent 
means,  and  the  shop  or  office  next.  This  is  so  because  it  takes  prolonged  intimate  con¬ 
tact  with  a  person,  place  or  thing  that  has  been  intensely  contaminated  with  tuberculosis 
matter  to  give  rise  to  implantation.  Probably  three-fourths  of  all  cases  of  tuberculosis 
conveyed  from  person  to  person  are  contracted  in  the  home,  and  one-fourth  due  to  shop 
or  office  environment. 

If  we  are  to  be  saved  from  tuberculosis,  we  are  to  breathe  pure  air  24  hours  out  of  24. 
— Address  delivered  at  Ottawa ,  111 .,  Aug.  22nd ,  1904. 


You  Mill  breathe  pure  air  24  hours  out  of  24,  every  day  inthe  year,  in  a  Walker  “Portable 

Sanitary  Cottage  and  regain  your  health  if  an  invalid. 


SANITARY  COTTAGE 


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ALL  DISEASES  REQUIRE  IT. 


\T°T  only  in  tuberculosis  and  pneumonia  is  fresh  air  necessary,  but  all  diseases  are 
^  benefited  by  it.  This  is  why  we  repeat  :  “  most  any  disease  can  be  cured  in  one- 
fourth  to  one-half  the  time,  if  the  patient  is  in  a  Walker  Sanitary  Cottage,  than  would  be 
required  in  a  plastered  house.”  The  blood’s  purified  by  every  breath  of  fresh  air.  If  each 
breath  we  take,  is  contaminated  air,  it  does  not  purify  the  blood  as  it  should,  and  there¬ 
fore  retards  recovery. 


YEAR  S  TENT  LIFE  SAVES  GIRL. 

Typhus  and  “Palsy  Overcome  After  “Doctors  GaVe  Her  Up. 

T30ST0N,  Aug.  27th. — Because  she  was  brave  enough  to  live  for  many  months  in  a 
tent  in  the  grounds  of  the  Waltham  Hospital,  defying  alike  the  blizzards  of  winter 
and  the  heat  of  the  summer  sun,  Miss  Albertina  Zobel,  who  skilled  physicians  a  year  ago 
said  could  not  live  more  than  a  week  or  two,  has  survived  the  ravages  of  typhus  and  palsy 
and  is  now  on  the  road  to  complete  recovery. 

M  iss  Zobel  was  as  healthy  as  any  girl  until  the  disease  set  in  a  peculiarly  severe  form. 
After  a  long  illness  she  became  temporarily  convalescent,  but  before  she  lefth^j^-brrF  a 
relapse  took  place.  The  physicians  of  the  hospital,  on  examination,  learneTt+fat  the  typhus 
had  attacked  the  bones  of  one  of  her  limbs  and  was  rapidly  eating  them  away.  There 
seemed  no  hope  of  saving  her  life,  for  she  was  so  frail  that  it  seemed  like  mockery  to 
suggest  amputation. 

When  no  other  avenue  of  hope  remained  open  Dr.  Henry  D.  Chadwick  conceived  the 
idea  of  trying  what  nature  could  do.  When  the  plucky  girl  said  she  was  willing  to  undergo 
the  ordeal  the  tent  was  pitched  for  her,  and  she  took  up  her  abode  there.  For  weeks  and 
months  it  was  discouraging  work,  for  improvement  seemed  slow  in  showing,  but  finally 
she  became  so  accustomed  to  her  mode  of  life  that  actually  she  seemed  to  enjoy  it.  Soon 
afterwards  the  color  began  to  return  to  her  cheeks  and  her  physicians  knew  that  the  heroic 
treatment  had  saved  her  life. 


The  Walker  Portable  Cottage  or  Health  House  is  not  only  the  most  sanitary  and  best 
health  house  on  the  market  to=day,  but  is  also  the  most  comfortable ,  durable, 
healthful,  convenient  and  most  desirable  in  every  respect  as  a  Summer 
Cottage,  Real  Estate  Office,  Photograph  Gallery,  Shooting  Gallery, 

Fruit,  Candy  or  Restaurant  Stand,  Automobile  House,  Children’s 
Play  House,  Miners’,  Hunters’,  Fishermen’s,  Surveyors’  or 
Ranchers’  Houses,  Moving  Picture  House  for  Parks,  Etc . 


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CURE  AT  HOME. 


[  N  a  recent  interview,  Dr.  S.  A.  Knopf,  considered  one  of  America’s  foremost  tuberculosis 
^  specialistsT'Sa-kL^In  choosing  a  climate  for  consumptives,  one  must  choose  the  climate 
in  which  one  can  live  the  greatest  number  of  days  in  the  year,  and  the  greatest  number  of 
hours  in  the  day  out  of  doors  ;  great  mistakes  are  made  by  physicians  in  the  East  or  any¬ 
where  else,  who  send  a  patient  away  from  home  to  die.  Even  if  a  patient  has  a  chance  of 
recovery,  and  is  inclined  to  be  homesick,  he  should  not  be  sent  far  from  his  home,  for  cli¬ 
matic  good  is  often  offset  by  poor  mental  conditions.  It  is  as  cruel  as  it  is  unscientific, 
and  as  uncientific  as  it  is  cruel,  to  send  an  advanced  case  far  from  home.” 

A 

Many  cures  have  been  made  in  the  most  severe  northern  and  eastern  climate  by  pur¬ 
chasing  a  Walker  Sanitary  Portable  Cottage,  furnishing  it  comfortably  and  placing  it  on 
the  lawn  right  at  their  own  home,  where  they  are  surrounded  by  their  own  relatives  and 
friends.  But  it  is  the  greatest  mistake  in  the  world  to  practice  economy  by  purchasing 
some  cheap,  unsanitary,  uncomfortable  tent  or  wooden  shack-tent  combination,  and  expect 
speedy  recovery.  While  the  first  cost  of  a  Walker  Cottage  may  be  a  little  more,  the 
money  expended  is  more  than  repaid  by  the  return  to  health  of  the  patient. 

All  persons  who  think  of  going  to  a  private  tuberculosis  sanitarium,  should  first  find 
out  whether  they  provide  their  patients  with  the  Walker  Sanitary  Cottages.  Many  san¬ 
itariums  are  fitted  up  with  the  cheapest  sort  of  unsanitary  tents  or  wooden  shacks  that  are 
not  fit  for  a  well  person  to  sleep  in,  much  less  a  person  with  diseased  lungs.  Some  sani¬ 
tariums  fit  up  with  this  cheap  truck  because  it  costs  little,  and  the  chances  are  that  any 
patient  coming  to  occupy  them  will  have  to  stop  a  long  while  to  show  any  improvement. 
The  question  of  whether  they  recover  at  all  or  not,  influencing  them  very  little  as  long  as 
they  are  good  pay. 

If  a  person  wishes  a  change  of  climate,  the  most  satisfactory  way  is  to  have  a  Walker 
Cottage  shipped  to  the  locality  you  wish  to  go  to.  On  arrival  there  rent  a  space  to  set  it 
up  which  will  cost  you  little.  If  you  later  wish  to  move  to  another  part  of  the  country  as 
the  season  changes,  or  if  you  find  the  location  does  not  agree  with  you,  then  take  your 
cottage  down  and  ship  it  to  wherever  you  wish  to  locate.  The  freight  will  be  little  and 
you  will  always  have  your  own  bedding  and  furniture  with  you.  In  this  way  you  will  be 
able  to  get  the  greatest  amount  of  good,  in  the  least  possible  amount  of  time,  because  you 
are  housed  in  comfort  in  the  best  health  cottage  ever  invented. 


Women  Who  are  good  nurses  Will  find  a  Very  profitable  field  by  buying  a  few  Walker 
Sanitary  Cottages  and  starting  a  private  sanitarium,  affording  them  a  pleasant 
and  healthful  Way  of  assisting  afflicted  humanity,  ji  small  capital  Will 
buy  a  few  cottages  Which  can  be  rented  the  year  round. 


SANITARY  COTTAGE 


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PHE  illustrations  we  have  used  in  this  catalogue,  excepting  the  ones  on  pages  7, 
8  and  9,  show  our  cottages  12  x  18  feet,  cottages  shown  on  pages  7  and  8  are 
12  x  24  feet.  These  cottages  are  not  arranged  for  bath  or  toilet,  so  that  separate 
toilet  buildings  must  be  provided  at  the  back  of  lot.  The  cost,  howevej^of  a  small 
wooden  building,  together  with  the  digging  of  a  cesspool  is  a  very^m^tTItem  of  expense. 

In  our  larger  sizes,  kitchen  and  bath  -room  can  be  partioned  off  if  found  desirable, 
at  very  little  expense. 


Avery  pretty  effect  can  be  produced  by  decorating  the  inside  with 

burlap  in  green,  brown  or  any  other  color.  This  burlap  can  be  buttoned  to  the 
frame  under  the  canvas  or  can  be  tacked  on.  By  its  use  the  shadows  thrown  on  the 
white  canvas  from  the  inside  cannot  be  seen  from  the  outside.  The  sunlight  during 
the  day  is  also  softened  by  the  use  of  burlap.  Some  prefer  the  burlap  at  one  end 
only.  Some  want  it  at  both  ends  of  the  cottage.  The  burlap  can  be  put  on  by  any¬ 
one,  or  we  can  ship  it  with  the  cottage. 


The  price  for  burlap  for  cottages  is  as  follows : 


No.  1  Cottage . 

...  $6.50 

No.  4  or  4  V2  Cottage .. 

. $12.50 

No.  2  or  2  1  2  Cottage 

...  8.00 

No.  5  or  5  1 2  Cottage 

. . .  15.00 

No.  3  or  3  l4  Cottage . 

10.00 

For  double  thickness 

burlap  curtain,  12  feet  wide . 

..$3.00 

STAINING  COTTAGES. 

The  interior  wood-work  of  cottages  can  be  stained  in  dark  oak  or  flemish  oak  if 
desired.  The  extra  price  for  staining  being  as  follows  : 

No.  1  or  1  V2  Cottage . ' . $5.00  No.  3  or  3  V2  Cottage . $  8.00 

No.  2  or  2V2  Cottage .  6.50  No.  4  or  4  V2  Cottage  .  10.00 


All  persons  Who  think  of  going  to  a  private  tuberculosis  sanitarium  should  first  find 
out  Whether  they  provide  their  patients  With  the  Walker  Sanitary  Cottages . 
Many  sanitariums  are  fitted  up  With  the  cheapest  sort  of  unsanitary  tents 
or  Wooden  shacks  that  are  not  fit  for  a  Well  person  to  sleep  in.  The 
question  of  Whether  one  recovers  or  not  Will  depend  a  great 
deal  on  comfortable  and  sanitary  living  quarters  and  the 
Walker  "Portable  Cottage  better  meets  this  require¬ 
ment  than  any  health  house  yet  invented . 


PRICES  AND  TERMS. 


Number 


PRICES. 

F.  O.  B.  EASTON,  PA. 

Floor  Dimensions 


1  Cottage 

12  x  12  feet 

2  Cottage 

12  x  18  feet 

3  Cottage-— - 

12  x  24  fe£t 

4  Cottage 

5  Cottage 

12  x  36  feet 

Price 

$150  ^$i75 
to  205 
230  to  250 
280  to  300 
to  360 


(&- 
c  ^ 


Th  e  above  is  our  old  pattern  and  has  7  feet  between  lower  and  upper  floor,  an  d  6  feet 
from  upper  floor  to  center. 


Number 

Floor  Dimensions 

Price 

1  /4  Cottage 

12  x  12  feet 

$175  to  $200 

2/4  Cottage 

12  x  18  feet 

200  to 

225 

3/4  Cottage 

12  x  24  feet 

250  to 

300 

4  /4  Cottage 

12  x  30  feet 

305  to 

360 

5/4  Cottage 

12  x  36  feet 

375  to 

420 

The  above  have  7  feet  between  lower  and  upper  floor  and  7  feet  from  upper  floor  to  center, 
making  the  upstairs  much  more  roomy. 

TERMS. 

One-half  cash  with  the  order,  and  draft  for  balance  attached  to  bill  of  lading,  will  be  sent 
through  the  bank.  On  arrival  of  draft  at  your  bank,  you  will  pay  balance,  get  your  bill  of 
lading,  and  then  you  can  get  your  cottage  from  the  Railroad  Company.  Where  there  are  no 
banking  facilities,  it  is  best  to  send  us  a  Post  Office  or  Express  Money  Order  for  the  full 
amount  of  purchase  price  with  the  order.  Where  there  are  banking  facilities  send  us,  in  remit¬ 
ting,  a  New  York  or  Chicago  draft  instead  of  personal  checks.  When  ordering  from  foreign 
countries  send  a  Post  Office  Money  Order  for  full  amount  with  order. 

Be  careful  to  give  us  clear  directions  as  to  how  you  wish  cottage  shipped.  Our  factory  is 
situated  so  that  we  can  ship  over  the  C.  R.  R.  of  N.  J.,  the  L.  V.  R.  R.,  the  Pennsylvania,  the 
D.,  L.  &  W.  and  the  L.  &  H.  Our  shipping  facilities  are  very  good  in  every  way. 

Address  all  communications  to 

S.  E.  MILLER, 

524  Northampton  Street, 
EASTON,  PA. 


If  you  desire,  We  can  furnish  Iron  Beds,  Cots  and  alt  Furniture,  Bedding,  Curtains  for 
Windows  and  CanVas  Curtains  for  partitions.  But  of  these  things  you  usually  have 
a  surplus  of  your  oWn  Which  you  could  use  in  fitting  out  the  cottage. 


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